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<blockquote data-quote="CEB" data-source="post: 942966" data-attributes="member: 4905"><p>I’ll say this...</p><p>I don’t fault people who question the hire. I haven’t seen anyone say they don’t like the hire or point to actual failures (maybe I missed it), but I understand some apprehension about it. There are certainly people looking for signs... we all are... and we see what we want to see in the absence of real results. </p><p>This was an “out of the box” hire. No one saw it coming (at least no one was chatting and speculating about it) and by its very nature of being out of left field, it’s fair to be leery. Seems like it even came out of left field for Stoudamire himself... which I hope is embellished to a degree. </p><p>CDS certainly is respected, which is good, but a lot of respected coaches have come and gone from programs without setting the world on fire. CDS had what looks in retrospect to be a good run at Pacific. Was he building something enduring or did he have a good season? We don’t know. It could’ve been an upward trend or it could’ve been an outlier. We had to show the door to a recent COTY as well, right?</p><p>He has been an NBA guy and that looked like his career path. I hope his move back to college is a conscious decision to move back to the college game, not a “hadnt thought about it but I’ll give it a shot.” The NBA is a different animal... I agree with that notion and everyone who has said it. Historically, it’s true and there are limited examples of coaching success at both levels. That said, each year I watch the college game (on the court) become more and more like the NBA game in terms of pace, scheme/ approach and player type. With NIL being the key to recruiting these days, and the on the court game becoming more similar to the NBA, maybe the “gap” between the leagues is narrowing and this isn’t the worry it used to be. </p><p>J Batt went all in on this hard, and I don’t view it as a “safe” hire. For that reason, there is cause for optimism. It happened quickly, and there didn’t seem to be hesitation from either side. It would suggest a strong “fit” even if reasons arent / weren’t obvious. It looks like Batt went and got his first choice. You have to like that. Let’s hope we give him the tools he needs and let’s hope that what he was doing at pacific was a “trend” that he can replicate here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CEB, post: 942966, member: 4905"] I’ll say this... I don’t fault people who question the hire. I haven’t seen anyone say they don’t like the hire or point to actual failures (maybe I missed it), but I understand some apprehension about it. There are certainly people looking for signs... we all are... and we see what we want to see in the absence of real results. This was an “out of the box” hire. No one saw it coming (at least no one was chatting and speculating about it) and by its very nature of being out of left field, it’s fair to be leery. Seems like it even came out of left field for Stoudamire himself... which I hope is embellished to a degree. CDS certainly is respected, which is good, but a lot of respected coaches have come and gone from programs without setting the world on fire. CDS had what looks in retrospect to be a good run at Pacific. Was he building something enduring or did he have a good season? We don’t know. It could’ve been an upward trend or it could’ve been an outlier. We had to show the door to a recent COTY as well, right? He has been an NBA guy and that looked like his career path. I hope his move back to college is a conscious decision to move back to the college game, not a “hadnt thought about it but I’ll give it a shot.” The NBA is a different animal... I agree with that notion and everyone who has said it. Historically, it’s true and there are limited examples of coaching success at both levels. That said, each year I watch the college game (on the court) become more and more like the NBA game in terms of pace, scheme/ approach and player type. With NIL being the key to recruiting these days, and the on the court game becoming more similar to the NBA, maybe the “gap” between the leagues is narrowing and this isn’t the worry it used to be. J Batt went all in on this hard, and I don’t view it as a “safe” hire. For that reason, there is cause for optimism. It happened quickly, and there didn’t seem to be hesitation from either side. It would suggest a strong “fit” even if reasons arent / weren’t obvious. It looks like Batt went and got his first choice. You have to like that. Let’s hope we give him the tools he needs and let’s hope that what he was doing at pacific was a “trend” that he can replicate here. [/QUOTE]
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